The Booming RFID Business in 2010

As always, local and national government initiatives drive most of the RFID market. Governments create new laws, such passport tagging and the recent requirement that all dogs in New Zealand be tagged. This year, the European Commission required that sheep and goats -about 110 million of them - be tagged in Europe. In two years, European and probably New Zealand cattle must be tagged as well, copying the situation in Canada, Australia and elsewhere. In all these cases it has to do with disease control but efficiency improves as well. On the other hand, governments usually fund military, prison and library tagging and some city cards and mass transit and airport tagging.